After all, don’t many platforms (or heck, browsers) render .zip URLs nonfunctional due to security concerns? Meaning our community.lemmy.zip links may not automatically hyperlink when we want them to, or it may trigger security risk popups. Whoops. Feel free to correct me.
Idk about others, but one of the key reasons for me to choose lemmy.zip for my communities was the url. Something like “sh.itjust.works” just sounds really childish to me. I wished we could have “lemmy.com” but sadly that domain is way too expensive to get so I think “lemmy.zip” is one of the few serious and convenient names for a Lemmy instance.